Lars Calmfors (Ph.D Stockholm School of Economics, 1978) is Professor of International Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He is a Fellow of the European Economic Association and Member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council. He has chaired the Economic Council in Sweden (1993-2001), the Swedish Government Commission on the EMU (1995-96), the Scientific Council of the Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies (1999-2007) and the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council (2007-2011). He has been a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association, the Scientific Council of the Labour Market Board in Sweden, the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Mobel, the Board of the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation in Sweden, the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Academic Advisory Council of the Anglo-German Foundation and the Swedish Government's Globalisation Council. He has done consultancy work for inter alia the Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and UK governments, the OECD and the Europan Parliament. His main research has been in labour economics and macroeconomics. He is currently doing research on fiscal policy institutions, the effects of earned income tax credits, pattern bargaining and attitudes to international trade in services.
Lars Calmfors Stockholm University Artillerigatan 40 SE-114 45 Stockholm Sweden E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Giancarlo Corsetti (Ph.D. Yale, 1992) is Professor of Macroeconomics at Cambridge University. He has taught at the European University Institute, University of Rome III, Yale and Bologna. He is director of the Pierre Werner Chair Programme on Monetary Unions at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies as well as a fellow of CESifo and CEPR, a member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and is regularly a visiting professor in central banks and international institutions. His main field of interest is international economics and open-economy macroeconomics with contributions that cover a wide range of issues: currency and fiscal instability, international transmission mechanism, monetary and fiscal policy, financial and real integration and global imbalances. His articles have appeared in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Policy, European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies, among others. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and the International Journal of Central Banking.
Giancarlo Corsetti Cambridge University Faculty of Economics Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DD United Kingdom E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
John Hassler (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He is associate editor of the Review of Economic Studies and Scandinavian Economic Review and an adjunct member of the Price Committee for the Price in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has served as consultant to the Finance Ministry of Sweden and is currently vice-chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council. His research covers areas in macroeconomics, political economy, economic growth and public economics. He has published extensively in leading international journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Public Economics. John Hassler is a fellow of the networks CESIfo, IZA and CEPR.
John Hassler IIES, Stockholm University SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Gilles Saint-Paul (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, GREMAQ-IDEI. He was researcher at DELTA and CERAS, Paris, 1990–1997, and professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 1997–2000. He has held visiting professorships at CEMFI, Madrid, IIES, Stockholm, UCLA and MIT. He has been a consultant for the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the British, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish governments. He is a fellow of CEPR, CESifo and IZA. He is also a fellow of the European Economic Association, and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique, the main economic advisory board to the French prime minister. In 2007, he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson medal to the best European economist below 45 years of age by the European Economic Association. His research interests are economic growth, income distribution, political economy, labour markets, unemployment, and fiscal policy. Selected publications include “Research cycles”, Journal of Economic Theory (2010), “Some evolutionary foundations for price level rigidity”, American Economic Review (2005); “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy (2002); The Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2000); The Tyranny of Utility (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).
Gilles Saint-Paul MF 206 GREMAQ-IDEI Manufacture des Tabacs Allée de Brienne 31000 Toulouse France EE-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Hans-Werner Sinn Hans-Werner Sinn is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich (LMU) and President of the CESifo Group. He has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the German Ministry of Economics since 1989 and is a fellow of a number of learned societies. From 1997 to 2000 he was president of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) and from 2006-2009 President of the International Institute of Public Finance. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Magdeburg (1999) and the University of Helsinki (2011), and an honorary professorship from the University of Vienna. He taught at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and held visiting fellowships at the University of Bergen, the London School of Economics, Stanford University, Princeton University, Hebrew University and Oslo University. He received the first prizes of Mannheim University for his dissertation and habilitation theses as well a number of other prices and awards from various institutions including the international Corinne Award for his best seller “Can Germany be Saved”. In 2005 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2008 the Bavarian Maximiliansorden (order of knights). In 1999 he gave the Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, in 2000 the Stevenson Lectures, in 2004 the Tinbergen Lectures, in 2005 the World Economy Annual Lecture at the University of Nottingham, in 2007 the Thünen Lecture, and in 2010 the D.B. Doran Lecture at the Hebrew University. Sinn has published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics and many other international journals, covering a wide range of fields and topics. He has published 9 main and 13 smaller monographs in six languages. They include titles such as Economic Decisions under Uncertainty, Capital Income Taxation and Resource Allocation, Jumpstart – The Economic Unification of Germany, The New Systems Competition, Casino Capitalism, and The Green Paradox.
Hans-Werner Sinn Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich Poschingerstr. 5 81679 Munich Germany E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Jan-Egbert Sturm (Ph.D. University of Groningen, 1997) is Professor of Applied Macroeconomics, Director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich and President of the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET). He was researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, until 2001, and taught as Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, 2000 and 2005. As Head of the Department for Economic Forecasting and Financial Markets at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, he was also Professor of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) at the Center for Economic Studies (CES), 2001–2003. He held the Chair of Monetary Economics in Open Economies at the University of Konstanz, Germany, which was coupled with the position of Director of the Thurgau Institute of Economics (TWI) in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 2003–2005. In his research, Jan-Egbert Sturm relies heavily on empirical methods and statistics, concentrating on monetary economics, macroeconomics as well as political economy. His applied studies have focused on, for example, economic growth and central bank policy. He has published several books, contributed articles to various anthologies and international journals like Applied Economics, Economics & Politics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Kyklos, Oxford Economic Papers, Public Choice, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Jan-Egbert Sturm headed the Ifo research team at the Joint Analysis of the Six Leading German Economic Research Institutes, 2001–2003. Since 2001 he has been member of the CESifo Research Network and since 2003 Research Professor at the Ifo Institute. In 2006 he was appointed member of the User Advisory Council of the Ifo Institute.
Jan-Egbert Sturm ETH Zurich KOF Swiss Economic Institute WEH D 4 Weinbergstr. 35 8092 Zurich Switzerland E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Akos Valentinyi (Ph.D. European University Institute, 1997) is a Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School, a fellow of CEPR and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has previously been Professor at the University of Southampton, and the Head of Research at the National Bank of Hungary. He has also been a visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. His research focuses macroeconomics, economic growth, productivity differences and structural change. He published in leading international journals like the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Ákos Valentinyi Cardiff Business School Aberconway Building, Colum Drive Cardiff, CF10 3EU United Kingdom E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
Xavier Vives (Ph.D. in Economics, UC Berkeley) is Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission; Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, where he served as Director of the Industrial Organization Program in 1991–1997, and of CES ifo since 2006. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992 and of the European Economic Association since 2004, and was President of the Spanish Economic Association for 2008. From 2001 to 2005 he was The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies at INSEAD, Research Professor at ICREA-UPF in 2004–2006, and from 1991 to 2001 Director of the Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC. He has taught at Harvard University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. His fields of interest are industrial organization and regulation, the economics of information, and banking and financial economics. He has published in the main international journals and is the author of Information and Learning in Markets (PUP, 2008), and Oligopoly Pricing (MIT Press, 1999). He has been the editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and is Co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He has been awarded an Advanced European Research Council Grant for the period 2009–2013 and has received several research prizes. Xavier Vives has been a consultant on competition, regulation, and corporate governance issues for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Commission as well as for major international corporations. Recently he has been appointed Special Advisor to the Vicepresident of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition, Mr. Joaquín Almunia.
Xavier Vives IESE Business School, University of Navarra Avda. Pearson 21 08034 Barcelona Spain E-Mail: This e-mail address is protected against spambots. Please activate JavaScript in order to see them.
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